The primary spherical outcomes of the early normal elections on Sunday, June 30, present an actual threat of the Rassemblement Nationwide (the intense proper get together) successful a big majority within the French Nationwide Meeting on the night of the second spherical (July 7).
This menace is rapid, actual and unprecedented. This isn’t an extraordinary democratic alternation. It should be met with gravity and willpower. Common and humanist values, akin to openness to others, tolerance, mental curiosity and important considering, are certainly in danger.
The coverage pursued by the Rassemblement Nationwide just isn’t solely based mostly on ideas of exclusion and withdrawal, but additionally on worry and rejection of the opposite: it jeopardizes our increased schooling system and the optimistic life alternatives it gives to our youth, no matter background, origins or social setting. It hinders our skill to welcome overseas college students, a few of whom will develop into doctoral candidates and, sooner or later, contribute to the affect of French science world wide. It threatens the independence of the general public service, of upper schooling as an entire, in addition to the autonomy of its analysis and the educational and pedagogical freedom of those that prepare our youth and contribute to the nation’s improvement, in every of our territories.
It’s moreover one other imaginative and prescient of Europe that we don’t need, one by which European universities shall be disregarded, one by which pupil mobility, bolstered by the ever so widespread Erasmus program, is at risk.
This warning goes past increased schooling and analysis institutions. Our goal is to not shield company pursuits, however to defend the values of the Republic.
Embracing the Rassemblement Nationwide’s political mission would equate to betraying these values and the spirit of the Enlightenment, the very basis of the College and our colleges.
France Universités (French Rectors’ Convention)
Convention of Administrators of French Administration Faculties (Conférences des directeurs des écoles françaises de administration – CDEFM)
Convention of Administrators of Engineering Faculties (Conférence des directeurs des écoles d’ingénieurs – Cdefi)
Convention of Grandes Ecoles (Conférence des grandes écoles – CGE)
